Has anybody got a fire or logburner lit at home today?

[TheTecknician]

I haven't as there's no provision for one in my modest home but it's certainly the right weather. Could we please see pictures? Thankyou.

I would love recommendations for these. We have a log burner but we get put off lighting it unless we will be in the room all evening.

Dog got a bit too hot!

Tempting but it’d be identifying

That's fine. What's not fine is when it happens in a built up area, and for no reason other than enjoying the cozyness. I'm in London and smell a lot of log burning... it's a well off area so it's not like they can't afford the heating.

We have exactly the same burner and glove as you! Ours is roaring away now too 🔥

We have a real fire (we're in the countryside) and it has been lit most of today as my husband was working from home. There's nothing like it for a cosy room.

Do you say the same to car drivers? Plastic manufacturers? There's a lot worse things than log burners that I bet you use at some point in your daily life. Unless you live off grid in a hobbit hole stfu.

Thankyou for the lovely pictures. It is regrettable that the issue of fires and log burners is so contentious, especially when so many people and pets appreciate them. I agree that traditional coal is smoky and smelly and immature firewood isn't ideal but smokeless coal isn't without its drawbacks. It is difficult to light and get going and the smell is terrible if a backdraft comes down the chimney. However, once it gets established and nicely glowing, it burns for ages and generates a lot of heat. It provides a good ignition base for seasoned hardwood logs (but don't tell anyone!).

Id love to show mine but so identifying if someone i know is on here. But its 250 yr old inglenook. With storage for a tonne of wood. Bread oven, and a whacking big wonky oak beam.

I remember you posting about your big inglenook in a similar thread a year or two ago.

We live in a built up area so ours has extra filters to comply with air quality, we also only burn kiln dried wood and have our chimney swept regularly. I wouldn’t be without it now.

I have cough variant asthma and it doesn’t trigger mine, I can’t smell it when I go outside.

We did try one of those sawdust logs and that triggered my cough, so quality of wood is definitely an important factor:

This sounds like my idea of heaven!

My neighbour’s just got one. My house now smells of smoke.

You have a beautiful home, it looks so cosy!

Not me but my parents live in a 400yr old cottage in middle of nowhere, no gas mains, inglenook fire heats the whole house and water. They switched to this coal a couple of years ago and once it gets going it’s great and lasts for hours without needing topping up

Back bedrooms are cold today and kids will come home and go on computers.

I think perhaps you do? the pp 's mum is suffering from these things and you don't care.

As far as i'm concerned these things should be banned in built up areas as too many people burn anything in them.

dunno, my house smelling of woodsmoke all day everyday in the winter is up there with things that affect my life considerably. Cars don’t, plastics don’t impact me to the same extent.

add to the fact even if it’s a reasonable day I can’t open windows, take the dog in the garden or hang washing out because of the smoke smell.

my house is slightly higher than my neigbours so their chimney is level with my ground floor. Whether that makes a difference I don’t know but I can’t stand the smoke smell every day.

However, once it gets established and nicely glowing, it burns for ages and generates a lot of heat. It provides a good ignition base for seasoned hardwood logs (but don't tell anyone!)

Unless your stove is a multi fuel one, you shouldn't burn coal in them, coal needs air from below, hence the issues you have lighting them.

Plus in a wood only stove the heat from the coal can damage the stove and or the liner if its not a 904/904 double skinned one.

We live in a big, old, energy inefficient house in a conservation area. In very cold weather the wood burner is an efficient way of keeping one or two rooms warm without running the heating all day. We burn kiln dried wood and keep it running hot enough to minimise particulates in a defra approved stove. You can’t smell our fire from outside as we have exceptionally tall chimneys

Lots of houses near me in London neigbourhood with wood stacked up outside their front doors. Absolutely no need and incredibly selfish. It is estimated that in London 284 premature deaths a year are attributable to log burning hence this project https://woodburning.london/

This was an old style open fireplace (I think dog grate was the technical term) in the mid-1980s in our family home. I don't think log burners had been invented then! It perhaps didn't help that our chimney hosted a gas fire beforehand and hadn't been prepared for a change of purpose.

I love our Gazco Loft gas fire. We had it installed on a slate hearth and it looks very cheery when lit and warms our large lounge really well. This house is modern so it suits the style of the room.

We deliberated for a long time over whether to have a multi fuel burner. We had one in our previous cottage which had a lovely inglenook fireplace and we loved the warmth and cosiness of it. But our needs have changed - we had to take into account the fact that we were out really early two days a week to pick up our toddler grandson that we looked after, and we aren't getting any younger either - so lugging around logs and smokeless fuel isn't ideal.

So that extra flexibility of just being able to switch it on and off works for us - instant heat when you need it and not too heavy on the gas either. We've had it three years now, serviced annually and so far completely trouble free.

Yes this - loads of people have put them in round here and it absolutely stinks! I have no idea what some are burning on these things but my eyes run when I go outside and my throat hurts.
Awful things.

I'm not affected by the smell of coal fires at all, just the wood burners 😩